EU and patents

Jason, Casper, Gé, should we move the SVN server off EU?
Is there a free place left in the world?
Did M already win (no sue needed)?
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[Casper Hornstrup]

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> Jason, Casper, Gé, should we move the SVN server off EU?
> Is there a free place left in the world?
> Did M already win (no sue needed)?
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html

I don't see what difference that would do. If we can't use ReactOS in the EU and US legally, then what good is it really? I believe
I read somewhere that an EU software patent cannot be a software-only invention, but I can't seem to find a reference to that now.

Casper

[Robert Köpferl]

Have some money (:-( ) and go to sealand.

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[Andrew Flynn]

What is the situation regarding 'ReactOS development' and software patents?
I understand the patents might hamper heaps of software development of 
course. Where does it leave developers, and people like myself who will 
be the end user?

Robert Köpferl wrote:
> Have some money (:-( ) and go to sealand.
>
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> > Did M already win (no sue needed)?
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> >
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[Jason Filby]

Hi

Basically: the same as any other software! We will try and avoid
patents where possible (work-arounds), attempting to find prior art or
perhaps even trying to prove them bogus. This is an industry wide
problem - Microsoft is regularly bitten by this very problem
particularly because they have so much cash. We will just have to try
our best to handle the problem - just like everyone else.

Cheers
Jason

On 4/16/05, Andrew Flynn [e-mail] wrote:
> What is the situation regarding 'ReactOS development' and software patents?
> I understand the patents might hamper heaps of software development of
> course. Where does it leave developers, and people like myself who will
> be the end user?